News

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

U.S. Federal

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

Genetic Selection

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal

New Three-Parent Baby Law ‘is Flawed and Open to Challenge’, says Senior Lawyer

By Steve Connor, The Independent [UK] | 01.14.2015
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The Government’s attempt to legalise so-called “three parent” babies is open to challenge by judicial review because of...

Biotech & Pharma

Deals For Genetic Data Raise Issues of Privacy, Sharing

By John Lauerman and Makiko Kitamura, Bloomberg | 01.14.2015
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In three recent deals, drugmakers are betting that personal genetic maps will finally fulfill their early promise to...

Technologies

Deals For Genetic Data Raise Issues of Privacy, Sharing

By John Lauerman and Makiko Kitamura, Bloomberg | 01.14.2015
Untitled Document

In three recent deals, drugmakers are betting that personal genetic maps will finally fulfill their early promise to...

Bioethics

IVF Booster Offered in Canada But Not US

By Alison Motluk, Canadian Medical Association Journal | 01.14.2015
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A new fertility treatment that purports to help older women get pregnant by boosting the energy in their...

Other Countries

23andMe Turns Spit Into Dollars in Deal With Pfizer

By Caroline Chen, Bloomberg | 01.12.2015
Untitled Document

23andMe Inc., the genetic-testing startup backed by Google Inc. (GOOG), is sharing DNA data on about 650,000...

Genomics

Artificial Intelligence Experts Sign Open Letter to Protect Mankind From Machines

By Nick Statt, CNet | 01.12.2015
Untitled Document

We're decades away from being able to develop a sociopathic supercomputer that could enslave mankind, but artificial intelligence...

Bioethics

Taxpayers Spend $140 Billion Funding Science Each Year — But Can't Access Many of the Results

By Julia Belluz, Vox | 01.10.2015

The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were...

Civil Society

Stem Cell Bill to Thwart False Claims

By Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post | 01.10.2015

The Public Health Ministry is drafting a bill to regulate stem cell treatment to protect consumers from exaggerated claims and...

Bioethics